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The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has come out in support of the senior managers of the New Building Society (NBS) who were before the court on charges of conspiracy to defraud and have since been acquitted.In a statement issued yesterday, the Executive Committee of the Human Rights body stated that “in light of both the injustices and the material hardships suffered by the managers they should be compensated. As such the GHRA is calling for payment to the acquitted defendants of all benefits due to them during the period of interdiction as provided for in law”.Kent Vincent and Baldeo Kissoon, the former senior managers of the NBS, joined former Director Secretary/CEO Maurice Arjoon in being freed of all fraud charges by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on October 12, 2011, after charges were first laid in June 2007. The dropping of charges, according to the statement, brings an end to the disgraceful saga in which the careers of the three men have been destroyed. Charges against the third manager, Maurice Arjoon, were dismissed on November 26,Odell Beckham LSU Jersey, 2010.The GHRA further made reference to the judicial process,Skal Labissiere Kentucky Jersey, underscoring that “passing the Preliminary Inquiry among four magistrates for over four years as a result of prosecution delays must surely constitute something of a record,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, prompting questions over the real foundations for this case.”In January 2009, Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin dismissed one of the charges for want of evidence. In dismissing two of the others last November,De Aaron Fox Kentucky Jersey, Magistrate Fazil Azeez, was reported as having written twice to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP),Kansas Jayhawks Jerseys, seeking that she withdraw the third charge against Kent Vincent and Kissoon Baldeo,Teddy Bridgewater Louisville Jersey, but received no response.Magistrate Azeez was reported as stating “for whatever reason they still want to hold on to it. I can’t scratch it up. I don’t have that power. Regrettably it has to be heard and I have to give a date.” He then, reportedly,Magic Johnson Michigan State Jersey, put down the cases for hearing in December before Magistrate Sewnarine-Beharry.But according to the GHRA statement, “the professional careers of men with previously impeccable records, have been terminated and their reputations destroyed by these charges without any evidence being led against them.”It was revealed too that a petition was signed by 88 per cent of the staff members in support of the three Senior Managers..“The controversy surrounding this matter merits an independent investigation into how these men, who held three of the top four positions in the NBS,Anthony Davis Kentucky Jersey, came to be charged in the first place. This might begin to restore some faith in the judicial system,Peyton Siva Louisville Jersey,” the statement added. |
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